Never understood the fortune seeking culture in areas like Japan and China. Anyone has an insight on how it is a thing?
It makes more sense if you actually have some belief in it....
It doesn't make sense to people who often don't believe in it because we humans are bad at understanding others...
But basically, the idea is that it predicts if you will have blessed luck or cursed luck.... now, it doesn't mean things will go right if you have good luck, but that things would be worse if you have bad luck....
And if you do have bad luck, you have the priest kinda bless it away to protect you from the evil ruining your luck.....
Basically, life is life, but external spiritual forces can make it worse and you gotta protect yourself...
Though it also works as a placebo as well (and it's proven that even if you know something is a placebo, if you still believe it could help, it can help) and a better mentality actually does make life better.... so it's still useful.
Cause humans are weird like that.
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Does that make sense or is it more confusing???